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Paper, 'Researches into the chemical constitution of narcotine' by A [Augustus] Matthiessen and G C [George Carey] Foster

Reference number: PT/68/15

Date: 1863

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Subject: Chemistry

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Researches into the chemical constitution of narcotine, and of its products of decomposition.—Part I'.

Received by the Royal Society on 26 February 1863. Read 26 March 1863.

Abstract published in Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society of London], Volume 12, 1863.

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PT/68/15
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1863
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Ink on paper
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39 pages
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Manuscript

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Augustus Matthiessen

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George Carey Foster

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Augustus Matthiessen, George Carey Foster, Paper, 'Researches into the chemical constitution of narcotine' by A [Augustus] Matthiessen and G C [George Carey] Foster, 1863, PT/68/15, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_68_15/paper-researches-into-the-chemical-constitution-of-narcotine-by-a-augustus-matthiessen-and-g-c-george-carey-foster, accessed on 17 May 2025

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